How have we still not mastered animating arms?

I’ve finally been playing through Mad Professor Mariarti on the Amiga. I saw it played many times as a child but now I’m finally playing it myself - and beating it!

This is why I cannot abide the Halo series. I came to them having been raised on Quake, Unreal Tournament, and Half-Life. Halo was like moving through molasses.

Whilst I don’t care about game discs, the notion of a high end media device without a UHD drive seems nuts to me.

…and nothing of value was lost.

Something bubbles up from a few decades back:

“I mean, it’s a fact, sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shit.”

Indeed it is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_sign_(generic)

Edit: Does anyone know the correct way to escape brackets in URLs on here? I cannot seem to get it to behave.

To put the shoe on the other foot:

• “No time wasters” (You’re wasting your own time writing this for your listing)
• “Bought for ¤x” (You think your item is worth more than it is and will be a pain in the arse about it)

I’m glad it wasn’t just me.

The greatest single-playthrough game would be a fun category. I think my picks for that might be What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, or Grim Fandango. Fire Watch would probably get an honourable mention.

A “pinacle of a (mostly) defunct genre” category might be a good one too. I would argue that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best isometric RTS games ever made.

No love for Washing Machine Emulator?

On launch 2042 was complete crap but I had some fun with it two years ago. I particularly liked being able to swap out my weapon attachments on the fly.

“Our community” feels a bit monolithic. It’s like saying “film watchers” or “readers”. Lumping anyone that plays video games regularly into a single social group feels unhelpfully reductive.

I absolutely loved the modern day story. I was so very invested and it still smarts a bit that they lost interest in doing it justice.

Manchester United: 3

Has there ever been a case where tax cuts genuinely helped a country/state/whatever’s economy?

I’m starting to suspect that this is why I don’t watch as many films as I’d like to. They’ve all become such a time commitment. Show me what you can do with an hour and a half!

are concerned about […]

No, they’re not.

Ye gods, 18 years, 4 months for mine. You’d hope that they’d just automatically stop asking if I’m old enough to view store pages, right?

I’m tickled that the code hasn’t been digitised and the scans are only just barely high enough resolution to make out the text.